This fascinating account of the development of the necktie from the 1670s to the present draws on contemporary pictorial and written sources as well as featuring stunning photographs of ties from the Victoria & Albert Museum’s world famous dress collection.
Avril Hart, formerly Assistant Curator of the Department of Textiles and Dress at the V&A museum, lectures extensively. Her published work includes Englishmen’s Fashionable Dress 1600-1799 and the section on men’s dress in the bestselling Four Hundred Years of Fashion.